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DOUGLAS COl Better Farming in the South HOW CROP YIELDS ARE UMITED The Weakest Element of Plant Food Fixes the Crop Yield, Just as the Weakest Link Fixes the Strength of the Chain—Only By Fertilization Can the Weakness Be Removed. Plants must feed to grow. Four es sential food ele ments come from the air and six from the soil. Only three of those that come from the soil fall short of crop re- quirments and have to be sup plied by man if the greatest yields are to be obtain J. C. PRIDMORE ® d * Theae w*e Ni- Agronomist trogen, Phospho ric acid and pot ash. Every soil may be said to have a limiting factor of production. This may be a shortage of some plant food element. If so, this should be sup plied through fertilization if the larg est possible yields are to be obtained. No matter how much of other plant food a soil may edntain, if there is a shortage of nitrogen, for example, then nitrogen will fix the limits of produc tion. Likewise with phosphoric acid or other elements. Plants differ from animals in taking food, in that plants will take foods only when the elements composing them are in soluble form, that is, when they are dissolved in water. When one element is deficient, the plant ceases growing. shQrtest plant food element represent ed here by a stave, limit the possible production of a crop? If, for instance, there is only enough nitrogen in the soil to produce 20 bushels of corn or 176 pounds of cot ton per acre, while there is enough plant food elements of other kinds to •produce enormously more, how tlien can greater yields be obtained than the nitrogen will permit? The problem of plant feeding is, therefore, no simple one. It has en gaged long and most careful investi gations of scientists, who have delved deep into the mysteries of how plants feed and what they feed upon. On the basis of the most exact knowledge thus obtained, modern fertilizers have been manufactured. Soil deficiencies, or “limting factors," modern fertilizers are designed to remove, and to call into fullest action the natural re sources of the soil. Since there is a limiting factor in all soils, it is worth while for each farmer to undertake to remove that limitation. Intelligent use of fertiliz ers will accomplish it, if food elements be this limiting factor. In no ether way can it be done than by the help of man. He must bring to the plant the food it needs and cannot find when this is the factor limiting producton. The plant, of course, must be given the best of surroundings. It must not only have plenty of plant food, but the soil must be properly drained of excess water. It must be well supplied with lime, and organic matter; its moisture must be conserved, and weedB killed through proper cultural methods. These things man can pro vide. Therefore, if man is not the "limiting factor” and he looks after llie plant food requirements, the great est possible yields will occur. To illustrate In another way, ob serve the picture. Here is a vessel made of staves. Each stave may represent a food ele ment or other factor of crop produc tion. Some of the staves are shorter than others. Does not the shortest stave then determine how much water 4he vessel can hold, and does not the Hannah PASTURE VELVET BEANS. Inquiry—“What is the most profit able use of the Velvet Bean?” Plant the velvet bean in the com and get a double crop. They do well together. Plant an early variety and fertilize for a good growth. The most economical use of velvet beans is to let cattle feed on them in the field and then to turn under the vegetable matter remaining. If there are not sufficient cattle on the place, get them and feed them. Why go to the expense of gathering beans, grinding and shipping *he meal off to some one else to feed and get the benefits?—J. N. HARPER. Pe pie are patriotic in this corner, if planting food crops is any evidence. Another proof is every Ford is diaped in Old Glory. I don’t know which it is that people worship the emblem that stands for pat iotism or whether it’s just popular to have one on. I will watch those folks and seejf they really mean to love Old Glory or just trying to stimu late the other man so he will do the fighting. All-true patriots wifcno doubt attend the speaking at Hulett next Monday night. Dr. Black mon has for his subject “The Confession Box.” Dr. Black mon i3 not an unknown man in the fight. He was in Texas when William Black was killed by the K. C’s., and was himself shot, and is carrying the assas sin’s bullet up and down the lard trying to warn the people against a foreign element tha.’s under mining our civil and religious liberties. The doctor will be at Hulett the first Monday and Tuesday nights in May. The following night he will lecture at Ebeneezer church. Boost the meeting and give the doctor a whooping crowd. And son, he will tell you ho v a patriot acts and the weapons he must use to preserve our liberties. J. M. Wilson, STOCK FEED OF ALL KINDS We handle sweet feed, hay, Red Gravy, Velvet Bean meal, bran, shorts, oats, beet pulp, cotton seed meal arid flaked hulls. We buy in car load lots and can save you money. We sell for’eash oniy. W. C. ABERCROMBIE Eat With Us No better medium priced cafe in the city. Stop and try a meal and you’ll come again. We serve only the best of everything. Albion Cafe 55 W. Mitchell St. Atlanta Too Much. “There is such a thing as carrying one's love for poetry too far,” stated Grout P. Smith. “Yesterday while my wife was attempting to hang up a por trait of the poet Goethe—I reckon ha was a poet, or something—she fell off from the stepladder on to the cat, wrenching her back and also that of the cat.”—Kansas City Star. No Service Too Exacting to demand our closest attention. Your wants are studied, your needs considered and the resulting glasses are the best, most com fortably servicable possible. Price- Our low rent enables us to of fer you a material saving. Silvius Optical Co. 19 So. Broad St. Nea« Alabama. Walk a block and save a dollar. Atlanta. Save The Difference O UR BUSINESS is selling shoes at less than their market value. A positive saving of 25 percent to 50 per cent. Our specialties, Sam ple Shoes and manufacturers canceled orders. We are receiving spring stock every week. We fit the whole family. THE TUGGLE SHOE CO. 41 South Broad Street, Atlanta, Georgia The Cheapest Rate of the Year ROUND $14-50 TRIP Boat Trip in One Direction $3. Extra From Douglasville TO Washington, D. C. ACCOUNT 27th REUNION CONFEDERATE VETERANS 22nd REUNION SONS OF VETERANS Tickets on sale, June 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 6 Good returning until June 21 and can be extended uutil July 6th for 50 cents. Stop-Overs Allowed There will not be a more attractive fare to Washington again for several years. For furthur information call on Ticket Agents or ad dress: R, L. Baylor, D. P. A, Atlajita SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM SPRING DRESS GOODS—* T HE flowers of spring are no more appealing to the senses in their chaste " coloring and tonal effect than our magnificent display of Spring Dress Goods are here. For those early spring dresses let us show you Silks, Ponges, Sport Goods, Voils, plain and fancy Linens, Beach Cloths, Laces, Embroidery, Ribbons etc. We searched the markets over for their most tempting offerings and we have them. It matters not your taste, whether you want the colors and pat terns to whisper or shout, or just to pleasantly murmer, we have them. Price, wont oother you. CLOTHING THAT IS DIFFEREN' If you have been wearing the usual misfit article that goes by the suggestive name of “Hand-me-down,” you will be delighted to find a line of Ready-to- Wear clothing that actually Fit3 tne Form. Our well known line of ALCO CLOTHING FOR MEN AND BOYS is carefully cut to actual physical measurements—not to a set rule—and w can supply you with as perfect a fit as your tailor can give you. Our clothing is not a substitute for tailored clothing—IT IS clothing of the very best. tailor^ N. B. & J. T.DUNC.